Licensed Program Type Definitions

You may view a list of any of the following programs for your county, by visiting the Find a Program page.
Please refer to Title 14 of the NYS Codes, Rules and Regulations to obtain more specific program definitions/information.

Licensed Outpatient Programs

Assertive Community Treatment - Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) is a comprehensive
and integrated set of psychiatric, psychosocial rehabilitation, case management and support services. These
services are provided by a mobile multi-disciplinary mental health treatment program mainly in the client's
residence or other community locations.

Clinic - A program for adults, adolescents, and/or children which provides an array of
treatment services for assessment and/or symptom reduction or management. Services include but are not
limited to individual and group therapies. The purpose of such services is to enhance the person's continuing
functioning in the community. The intensity of services and number/duration of visits may vary.

Comprehensive Psychiatric Emergency Program (CPEP) - A hospital based program which
offers/provides access to crisis outreach, intervention, and residential services; and/or provides beds
for the extended observation (up to 72 hours) to adults who need emergency mental health services.

Continuing Day Treatment - A program which provides seriously mentally ill adults with the
skills and supports necessary to remain in the community and or work toward a more independent level of functioning.
Participants often attend several days per week with visits lasting more than an hour.

Day Treatment - A program which integrates mental health and age appropriate education services
for children and adolescents living in the community until they can attend regular classes. It usually operates five
full days per week during the school year and on a curtailed schedule during the summer. It may or not be school based.

Intensive Psychiatric Rehabilitation Treatment - A time limited rehabilitative program for
adults and/or adolescents which focuses on building skills and developing community supports to assist
individuals to attain a specific residential, learning, working or social goal(s).

Partial Hospitalization - A program for adults or adolescents which provides active
treatment designed to stabilize or ameliorate acute symptoms in a person who would otherwise need hospitalization.

Personalized Recovery Oriented Services (PROS) is a comprehensive recovery oriented
program for individuals with severe and persistent mental illness. The goal of the program is to integrate
treatment, support, and rehabilitation in a manner that facilitates the individual's recovery.

Licensed Residential / Housing Programs

Apartment, Support Community Residence - A program which provides adults an apartment
in the community and staff visits as necessary to address behavioral or environmental issues and to provide
supportive services designed to improve or maintain the resident's ability to remain in the community.

Apartment, Treatment Community Residence - A program which provides adults an apartment,
in the community with staff visits as necessary to provide rehabilitative services designed to improve functioning
and develop greater independence.

Children and Youth Community Residence - A single site residence that provides group
living for six to eight children and or adolescents. The program provides a supervised, therapeutic environment
which seeks to develop the resident's skills and capacity to live in the community and attend school/ work as
appropriate.

Congregate, Support Community Residence - A single site residence that provides group
living for adults, three meals a day, 24 hours per day supervision/staff, activities geared toward maintaining or
improving functioning.

Congregate, Treatment Community Residence - A single site residence that provides group
living for adults, three meals a day, 24 hours per day supervision/ staff, and rehabilitative activities.

Crisis Residence - A single site residence designed to provide 24 hours per day supervision,
generally for up to 30 days, to adults or children/adolescents experiencing acute symptoms or a temporary
disruption in community supports. Services are designed to avoid hospitalization, and return the resident
to a stable environment.

Teaching Family Home - A home which provides specially trained teaching parents
who provide individualized care for up to four children/adolescents with serious emotional disturbances
at a time in a family setting.

Service Enriched Single Room Occupancy - A program that provides adults private living
units at a single site; and on-site staff and support activities to assist residents to negotiate routine
challenges of living in the community.

Licensed Inpatient Hospital Programs / Hospitalization Programs

Inpatient Treatment Program - A 24 hours per day hospital based program which includes
psychiatric, medical, nursing, and social services which are required for the assessment and or treatment
of a person with a primary diagnosis of mental illness who can not be adequately served in the community.
Such programs may be offered to adults, adolescents, and/ or children by general hospitals, private hospitals
for the mentally ill, and state operated psychiatric centers. Residential Treatment Facilities (RTF's), which
are a specialized type of inpatient treatment program for children and adolescents, are described below.

General Hospital Inpatient Programs - 24 hours per day inpatient treatment programs that are jointly
licensed by the New York State Office of Mental Health and the New York State Department of Health and operated
in medical hospitals.

Hospital for Mentally Ill Persons Inpatient Programs - 24 hours per day inpatient treatment programs
that are licensed by the New York State Office of Mental Health and operate in private hospitals that provide
behavioral health services exclusively.

Residential Treatment Facility for Children and Youth - A 24 hours per day inpatient treatment
program which provides intensive treatment services to children and adolescents age 5 - 21 who need longer
term treatment than would be provided on an inpatient psychiatric program operated by a general, private
mental hospital, or state psychiatric center.

State Psychiatric Center Inpatient Programs, please go to
OMH Facility
Directory for a list of state operated psychiatric centers.